{"id":1153,"date":"2023-08-09T10:21:45","date_gmt":"2023-08-09T10:21:45","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/reel\/the-little-known-mother-culture-that-inspired-the-maya-bbc-reel\/"},"modified":"2023-08-09T10:21:45","modified_gmt":"2023-08-09T10:21:45","slug":"the-little-known-mother-culture-that-inspired-the-maya-bbc-reel","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/reel\/the-little-known-mother-culture-that-inspired-the-maya-bbc-reel\/","title":{"rendered":"The little-known &#39;mother culture&#39; that inspired the Maya &#8211; BBC REEL"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><iframe  width=\"580\" height=\"385\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/vyGr4iakR64?autoplay=1\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><br \/>\n<br \/>Long before more famous civilisations such as the Maya and Aztecs, a people called the Olmec were building an impressive legacy in Mexico and Central America.<\/p>\n<p>Commonly referred to by experts as the &#8216;mother culture&#8217; of Mesoamerica, the Olmec civilisation ruled parts of modern-day Mexico and Guatemala between 1200 to 400BC.<\/p>\n<p>They built pyramids, studied the stars, and their architecture included complex water systems.<\/p>\n<p>In recent decades, scientists have been discovering vital clues about just how influential the Olmec were to the later Maya and Aztec world.<\/p>\n<p>Producer &#038; narrator: Howard Timerblake<\/p>\n<p>#bbcreel #bbc #bbcnews<br \/>\n<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=vyGr4iakR64\">source<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Long before more famous civilisations such as the Maya and Aztecs, a people called the Olmec were building an impressive legacy in Mexico and Central America. Commonly referred to by experts as the &#8216;mother culture&#8217; of Mesoamerica, the Olmec civilisation ruled parts of modern-day Mexico and Guatemala between 1200 to 400BC. They built pyramids, studied [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":27,"featured_media":1154,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"video","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[356,546,15,17,16,548,544,545,547,354],"class_list":["post-1153","post","type-post","status-publish","format-video","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-humans","tag-america","tag-aztec","tag-bbc","tag-bbcnews","tag-bbcreel","tag-guatemala","tag-maya","tag-mayans","tag-mexico","tag-usa","post_format-post-format-video"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/reel\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1153","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/reel\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/reel\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/reel\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/27"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/reel\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1153"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/reel\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1153\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/reel\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1154"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/reel\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1153"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/reel\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1153"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/reel\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1153"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}